Updates from the DUE Poster Session at JMM Denver 2020

By: Katie Haymaker, Co-Editor of DUE Point, Villanova University DUE Point features a different NSF-funded project each month, but our interviews are only able to capture a snapshot of the progress the investigators are making at the time. At the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), we work to touch base with new projects and see...

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Ethics in Mathematics–why is it so hard?

By Dr. Maurice Chiodo, Fellow and Teaching Officer at King’s College, Cambridge. Lead investigator of the Cambridge University Ethics in Mathematics Project. @mauricechiodo Mathematics is never done in complete isolation, and mathematicians need to consider the way in which their work impacts the lives of others, including those outside of their professional community. Anyone doing...

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10 Ways to Build Inclusivity at Ph.D. Granting Institutions

Rachel Levy, MAA Deputy Executive Director, @mathcirque: I’m always on the lookout for guest posts for the MAA Math Values Blog. Recently I noticed a series of posts on Twitter by Dr. Benjamin Braun that closely align with the Math Values of inclusivity and community. (Did you know that Ben coordinated an effort for the...

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Giving a Math Course for Non-STEM Majors

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin At the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver, CO last month, I participated as a panelist and group discussion leader in an MAA Project NExT session on mathematics courses for non-math majors. I focused primarily on non-STEM majors. The session was well attended, and it was clear that there is considerable interest...

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Rethinking Algebra II

By David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Amir Asghari has just posted a piece by me on "Learning to Teach." It is under Teaching Ideas at https://maths4maryams.org/mathed/. He has also translated it into Farsi. In 2016, Andrew...

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The International Mathematics Community and the Security of STEM Research

By Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America Those of us in the mathematical sciences take it as axiomatic that our community is global. Just as with other sciences, the progress we’ve made over the last century (and beyond) has been made possible through the robust mechanisms we have to share results...

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PRIMED: Supporting College Faculty in their Work with Prospective Teachers

By Erin Moss, Co-editor of DUE Point What support exists for college faculty who are new to the unique challenges of teaching mathematics courses for future K-8 teachers? The NSF-sponsored Professional Resources & Inquiry in Mathematics Education (PRIMED) offers an online short-course in which instructor-participants work in pairs to explore and experiment with activity-based approaches to...

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#MATH4HF

By: Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America Fifteen years ago, when I was still relatively new at MAA and responsible for the MAA PREP program, Bob Megginson recommended that I reach out to Francis Su about the possibility of running a PREP workshop at MSRI. I did, and Francis held a...

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Who Needs a Diversity Statement Anyway?

By: Omayra Ortega, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University The December 2019 Notices contained an op-ed article that you may have heard a thing or two about. In the blog, we read, “[w]hatever our views on communism, most of us today are in agreement that the University of California (UC) loyalty oaths of the 1950s were...

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I was VITAL faculty

By: Carrie Diaz Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bates College, @mathprofcarrie See entire thread at https://twitter.com/bravesgyrl/status/1148356206290984960 Dr. Sutton (@bravesgyrl) wrote an amazing series of Twitter posts this summer. She talked about how it feels to be a non-tenure track faculty member, mingling in our broader professional world. She talked about Dr. Levy’s...

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